Meet the Press 4/3/2011 - Libya, Budget, Obama and a left-wing love fest
Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 10:13AM On Meet the Press this Sunday, David Gregory started out interviewing Dick Durbin. Durbin didn't say anything outside Democrat talking points -- Obama is on track in Libya, Republicans are cutting valuable programs but the Democrats are willing to compromise is the cuts make sense. In other words, Democrats are good, Republicans are mean, and Obama is a great President. Durbin did say something interesting when asked about Obama's aloofness from the budget battle. Durbin said Obama is correctly standing back from the process, and that Obama will move in to make sure the Democrats are making the right decisions when a compromise is reached. This is an incredible statement. First, what wisdom does Obama possess to determine if congress is right, and how weak can Durbin be to depend on Obama to say what is right? Durbin must have a low opinion of congress if he sees them as dependent on Obama's final judgement. Durbin's statement reveals a troubling mindset that thinks of Presidents as Monarchs. Incredible. Why even have a congress -- just let Obama decide what's should be done from the start.
Then Gregory interviewed Mike Rogers, Republican from Michigan, and asked him about the situation in Libya. Rogers favors the kinetic military action. It makes me wonder, as I wondered the whole show, why Meet the Press didn't have someone like Rand Paul on to discuss why we shouldn't intervene in places like Libya. To begin with, Meet the Press was a virtual left wing love fest with two guests on who are even close to the Right, and both Republicans agreed with the Libya intervention, as did all from the Left on the show. There was no one with a non-interventionist perspective.
The round table was stacked with Left wing views, except for Mike Murphy who is some kind of pragmatic moderate consultant, certainly not a representative of the new Right. Doris Kearns Goodwin, of course, believes that Obama is doing the right thing, and, concerning the budget, Kearns believes the Democrat position is the correct position, as does E.J. Dionne and Marc Morial, who were also on the program. They are all supporting of the Libya War. It's amazing that Meet the Press thinks having a show stacked to the Left is useful except to push the Democrat positions and denigrate the Republicans' positions. No one challenged the claims that Republicans are harming the nation with their spending cuts -- the charges were just out there as if they are facts.
The liberal media and political pundits spend an inordinate amount of energy attacking Fox, but hardly any of them look in the mirror ro criticize their own bias. Just about all news coverage in the MSM is now geared toward the 2012 elections -- they've started tilting the coverage as pro-Obama/Democrats and anti-Republican. The messages from Meet the Press this morning are that the economy is recovering, Qaddafi is pressured to step down, Obama's doctrine is really a pragmatic approach to get our allies to help take the burden off America, but America is still supportive of the humanitarian efforts, Republicans have no good candidates in 2012 and that Republicans will come off looking bad when they announce their extreme spending cuts.
Regarding Obama's "doctrine", this is the biggest joke. Even if Obama is trying to get international support for interventionist missions, it changes nothing. Just because we have hired more deputies doesn't change the fact that our country is continuously getting involved in these situations. The problem is intervention where we have nop business or interests, not how we intervene and how many partners join us.
Reader Comments (3)
I have reached the conclusion that most of President Obama's critics on the right despise him. The mantra on the right is that the President is failing to lead. This is racially coded speak because it is granted that the President of the United States is the elected leader of this country. That is why I have never seen a prior serving president be accused of failing to lead, why?
President Obama formed a commission to address the National Debt and Deficits. Which other recent president has done that? President Obama laid out in the State of the Union Address a road map on how to address our fiscal problems. The President submitted a budget even though Bills for raising revenue (spending bills) start in the House of Representatives not in the Executive Branch. President Obama is not failing to lead.
His critics have failed to listen and failed to follow. Sometimes, It is like former Chief Justice Taney is channeling President Obama's critics with his Majority remarks in the Dred Scott Case in 1857. Either the President's decisions are the wrong ones or should not have been made according to his many critics. This even when his decisions turn out to work which they very often do.
It is hard to say a president's decision is wrong unless the ramifications stick out like a sore thumb. One example is Gitmo. The President said he wanted it closed. Some are saying that the President is wrong for attempting to do so. The POTUS saw this decision was in the best interest of the USA. The Congress disagreed and set many stumbling block in his path. There it is: a failure to listen and a failure to follow.
This is a patheic use of the claim of racism. Many on the Left thought Bush was a poor leader and didn't keep us out of a war -- so were they racists? Obama ignored his own debt commission, so I don't know how that is pertinent. If the Left is going to criticze Republican presidents, they can't hide behind charges of racism now when the Right criticizes Obama -- many on the Left are saying Obama is not leading, and some of them are black like the leader of the Black Panthers -- is he a racist? This is pitiful.
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